Sebasti-Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who live there-an irreplaceable treasure of humanity.
In the book-s foreword Salgado writes: -For me, it is the last frontier, a mysterious universe of its own, where the immense power of nature can be felt as nowhere else on earth. Here is a forest stretching to infinity that contains one-tenth of all living plant and animal species, the world-s largest single natural laboratory.-
Salgado visited a dozen indigenous tribes that exist in small communities scattered across the largest tropical rainforest in the world. He documented the daily life of the Yanomami, the Ash-nka, the Yawanaw-the Suruwah-the Zo--the Kuikuro, the Waur-the Kamayur-the Korubo, the Marubo, the Aw-and the Macuxi-their warm family bonds,
